Hydro and Biomass Energy: China’s Future Energy Sustainability

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Introduction
It is the imperative of each country to supply its own citizens with water, food, energy, and good infrastructure. If a country wants to improve its own economic and political situations in the world, it should, first of all, advance the citizen’s level of living, because the main value of any country is the countries’ civilians. Therefore, one of the majority factors which could enhance life expectancy, wealth, and medical services, by the fact itself improves industrial and economic situations of a country is energy sustainability. According to recent statistics from the Central Intelligence Agency (2010), there are about 1.33 billion people live in China and all these people should be supplied by energy. Currently, there…show more content…

In addition, these types of energy producing have much fewer emissions of CO2 than coal-burning, which could significantly enhance the environmental situation in the country. Firstly, this essay will describe the roles and the meanings of biomass energy and hydro energy functions in China; secondly, it will compare hydro energy and biomass energy functions using the criteria of availability of resources and ecological effects; and finally, it will suggest that the hydropower is the most suitable for future development of China.

The Role of Biomass in China
As mentioned before, China is the World’s leader in biomass energy production and its consumption. Biomass energy can be defined as an energy that obtains from organic matters, such as crop residues, firewood, foul, industrial and bio wastes (Zhang et al. 2007, 440). To attain this energy there is a great deal of distinct types of contraction biomass energy: direct burning, co-firing, biomass gasification, repowering, and other types (How Biomass Energy Works 2010). The easiest and common way of converting the organic matters to the energy is the direct burning: biomass should be burned to produce steam; consequently this steam runs turbines which generate electricity (ibid.). Another widespread example of bio energy is biomass gasification – a production of syngas by combination of a heated biomass and oxygen under the pressure, which could easily produce electricity by transforming it into

of each country supply own citizens by water, food, energy, infrastructure. If country want to improve own economic, politic situations in the World, it should, first of all, advance the citizen’s level of living, because the main value of any country is the countries civilians. Therefore, one of the majorities of factors which could improve living level ipso facto improves industrial and economic situation of a country is the energy sustainability. Nowadays, China is the World’s leader in population…

Alternative Energy for Future
Nowadays the most common energy resources come from Fossil Fuel, which according to research it shows that more of 85% of all energy that is consumed in the United States. It takes millions of years for the Fossil Fuel to actually develop and ready to be used, and the main concern of Fossil Fuel is that it cannot be consumed over and over again or reused. Through this analysis it can be assumed that because it takes millions of years for the fossil fuel to develop,…

The public perception of forest biomass utilization for energy production faces significant concerns in regard to the sustainability of local forests. Community participation and input is critical in addressing citizen’s concerns and priorities when developing a local energy plan. Greater opportunities for public engagement in the energy planning and policy making processes allow for more innovative and publicly supported uses of forest woody biomass. Since wood bioenergy is typically grown in proximity…

How effective nuclear argument China's energy plans?
Introduction:
China, now has the biggest gross domestic product--GDP, and has allowed investment by multinational firms but has problems of policy because it is still a centralized communist state and the planning for China must essentially be based on these cross-cultural perspectives. This has also affected the fuel and the energy infrastructure to a great extent. (Alon, 2003, p. 3) One of the factors that created the variance in culture…

Nuclear energy, is it the energy of the future?
Nuclear energy can be seen as the energy hope for the future. The diminishing supply of non-renewable fossil fuels requires the development of a cheap alternative. Could nuclear energy be the answer? It is abundant, low in labour intensity, comparatively clean and able to provide for societies needs for at least 200 years.
Currently, the most common source of energy is made from the combustion of coal. However, Australians are the most polluting people…

Future of Potential Energy
A lot of factors must be considered when it comes to assessing the potential of renewable energy for economic sustainability bearing in mind that the energy sector is continuously growing. It is imperative that available information on Department of Energy DOE, lands and solar and wind renewable energy resources are gathered. This should be followed with appropriate screens for GIS analysis (Dahle, Elliot, Heimiller, Mehos, Robichaud, Schwartz, Stafford, and Walker, 2008…

Micro hydro power is a concept that has over the years been adopted as an alternative energy supply for communities whose access to a national grid is limited by a factor or two. In fact, hydro power is one of the oldest sources of energy used by the human civilization. It has been used for hundreds of years to turn waterwheels for the purpose of sawing logs, grinding grains, and the manufacture of cloths. From the last century, large scale hydro power plants have been used mainly for the generation…

Renewable Energy
Biomass is the energy we get from plants and animals that have died. It is organic material made from microorganisms containing stored energy from a process called photosynthesis. When photosynthesis occurs, plants take in sunlight with carbon dioxide and water, and then release glucose, which the plant uses for food and oxygen, which is the air that we breathe. Then sooner of later the plant will either die or get eaten. When it is eaten, the energy from the plant is passed…

Biomass
Abstract:
The current use of energy in the United States, especially California, is foreshadowing catastrophe in our environment. Due to high demand of fossil fuels, the air is filled with more pollution every day. In addition to, it can increase the chances of having global warming. Since fossil fuels are generated from raw materials which are easy and cheap users are becoming extremely dependent on them. The main problem with fossil energy is that the supply of fossil fuels is not…

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer talks about the deforestation in Africa, and the different type of experiments William conducted in search of possible alternative energy. Deforestation is a growing problem in Africa due to the household communities’ dependency to use wood for fuel to prepare their daily meals, or use wood to create charcoal and sell in order to buy food for their families and survive. For most households in Africa, the use of wood to…